Sausage-linker.



G. SCHLERETH.

SAUSAGE LINKER. APPLICATION FILED MAY3I. I918.

1 2893300 Patented Dec. 31,1918.

GEORGE SCHLEBE'IH, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SAUSAGE-LINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 31, 1918. Serial No. 237,395.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ScHLEnn'rH, a citizen of the United States of, America, and resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sausage- Linkers, of which the following is a specification.

An object of my invention is to produce ,a sausage linking machine which is simple 1n construction and operation, which will not injure the sausage casing in the linking operation, and whichis easily kept clean.

Thisand other objects are attained in the machine described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sausage linking machine embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view of an element of my invention.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the element shown in Fig. 2.

My improved machine consists of a roll 4 rotatively'mounted in bearings 5 and 6 upon a table 7 and driven by suitable means as by a belt 8 which receives motion from a drive shaft 9 beneath thetable. Roll 4 is preferably providedwith a fluted or corrugated surface 4, the edges of theelevated portions thereof being'rounded as shown in Fig. 3. The surface of the roll is additionally shaped to have its central diameter larger than'its end diameters, as shown in Fig. 2.

In using my improved machine the roll 4 is rotated at the proper speed and, while rotating, the stuffed casing is held in contact therewith, the hands of the operator being held at each end of a section of the required length of the stufied casing necessary The action of the corrugations upon this length is to twist it with relation to the remainder of the casing and thus form the Patented Dec. 31, 1918. g a

link 10 by squeezing the stufiing away from the twisted portions and forming twists 11 and 12 at the ends of the linkas shown in F in. 1.

In Fig. 1, I have shown a series of four machines embodying my invention, incorporated in a single table, each roll varying in length to form sausages of different lengths.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is: l

1. In a sausage linking machine the combination of a table having a slot in its top, a rotatable roll whose periphery when the roll is rotated is adapted to contact with a portion of a stuffed casing substantially equal to the length of the sausage to be formed, means for mounting the roll upon the table and with its operative periphery exposed through the slot above the table top and means for rotating the roll.

2. In a sausage linking machine the combination of a table having a slot in its top, a rotatable corrugated roll whose periphery when the roll is rotated is adapted to contact with a portion of a s'tufied casing substantially equal to the length of the sausage to be GEORGE SOI-ILERETH.

Witnesses:

WALTER F. MURRAY, W. THORNTON Boennr. 

